Vietnamese Traditional Crafts

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Bac Ninh woman leaves city job to preserve traditional do paper-making

Leaving behind an office job with a salary of VND10 million per month, Ngo Thu Huyen returned to Bac Ninh to carry on her family's trade, seeking a new path for a traditional do (poonah) paper-making craft spanning nearly 200 years.

Tour guide quits job to preserve family’s 3-generation rice-paper craft

When asked by her mother, a woman in HCMC decided to give up her childhood dream job to return to her hometown and preserve her family's traditional craft.

Bac Ninh man quits job to save family's fading clay figurine craft

Once a cherished part of Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in northern Vietnam, traditional clay figurines are becoming increasingly rare. Fearing the craft could disappear, Phung Dinh Dat has returned home to learn it from his grandfather.